Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Job
WisdomAnd the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
Psalms
PoetryGive not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
Genesis
Law / MosesBut I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Shavsha was scribe;
1 Chronicles
HistorySo Joab came to the king, and told him: and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.
2 Samuel
HistoryLORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:
Numbers
LawAnd a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
Genesis
Law / MosesArise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
Micah
Minor ProphetsThey made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the two edges was it coupled together.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersPonder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSurely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraConsume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryWhen they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD: